April Wells

April Wells has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences and an MBA from West Texas A&M. She is a database administrator, currently working as an Oracle DBA and an Oracle Apps DBA in Amarillo, Texas, where she lives with her husband and two children. With more than seven years of IT experience in COBOL and Visual Basic programming and as a SQL Server DBA, webmaster, and Linux system administrator, she has a varied background on which to draw. She is the author or coauthor of a number of books, and has been a presenter at the International Oracle Users Group conference, Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days, and the TriState Oracle Users Group (of which she is the founder and current president).

April Wells

April Wells is Senior Oracle DBA, Oracle APPS DBA, and DB2 DBA for CS Stars, an insurance claims processing and risk management ASP in Amarillo, Texas. She holds an Oracle 8, 8i, and 9i OCP and has taken numerous database and Oracle-specific classes. Her background includes experience with IMS databases; DB2; SQL Server; Oracle 8, 8i, and 9i; and dBase; working as a webmaster and Linux System Administrator as well as a Cobol programmer; Oracle Forms designer; and Visual Basic programmer.

April has presented at IOUG and has recently published Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from the Front Lines, Grid Database Design, and several articles on databases for InformIT. She is working on two more books (Grid Applications Design and Oracle 9i/10i Data Warehouse Field Guide).

She graduated with a BS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Library and Information Sciences and earned her MBA from the Texas A&M University System.